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Re: Ask HN: What influenced your personal growth the most?

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I think sticking to things I start has contributed the most personal growth for me. I think for anything to have any effect on you, you have to stick with it for at least 6 months or more (though it definitely depends on each activity). In the last 2 years I have been able to lose 8kgs, increase my business, cure my chronic backache and become a lot happier using this one trick of sticking to things daily without fai…

Seeing the template would be awesome.

Re: Ask HN: What influenced your personal growth the most?

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post #6

I think sticking to things I start has contributed the most personal growth for me. I think for anything to have any effect on you, you have to stick with it for at least 6 months or more (though it definitely depends on each activity). In the last 2 years I have been able to lose 8kgs, increase my business, cure my chronic backache and become a lot happier using this one trick of sticking to things daily without fai…

> The only thing which this never worked is sleeping at 10 a.m. Do you mean "at 10 PM", or "until 10 AM", or do you just have a bizarre biorhythm?

Sorry 10 pm. No wonder i can't get that right :)

Re: Ask HN: What influenced your personal growth the most?

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Knowing about the Conspicupus Signalling Theory (Geoffrey Miller's book). Understanding how flirting really works with Dan Bacon's The Flow. Meditation and going beyond materialism by experiencing many lucid OBEs. Jordan Peterson in general and self authoring in special. Understanding how poisonus Postmodernism is (Stephen Hicks book). Understanding how the Cultural War works (a global issue). Becoming a socratic method aficionado. Having a financially independent friend to become my financial mentor.

Re: Ask HN: What influenced your personal growth the most?

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Not 100% convinced about it, but I wanted to say: that I stopped smoking pot.

Told myself well in advance that I'd quit 11 months in to my girlfriend's pregnancy (EDIT - obviously the residual effects are still there. I quit 8 months in to her pregnancy. This is what drugs do, kids.)

Since then (now almost a year later) my ability to comprehend and concentrate on technical things has improved a lot. I've learn things in web development that I just couldn't back then. Probably due to the fact I was a daily smoker for almost 20 years.

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